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Health & Exercise

The Role of Exercise in Teen Depression Treatment

Teen depression is a complex disease that doesn’t always respond to traditional therapeutic approaches. Many mental health treatment providers use a trial-and-error approach to establish what works and what doesn’t for each client. Initially, the therapies treatment centers use include antidepressant medications and talk therapy, such as cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT). Complementary approaches like exercise also can be important tools to help manage depression in adolescents. Exercise can offer relief

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January 7, 2020

Raising Empathetic Children

“Learning to stand in somebody else’s shoes, to see through their eyes, that’s how peace begins.  And it’s up to you to make that happen. Empathy is a quality of character that can change the world.” – Barack Obama Crisis of Conscience A person watching the mainstream news media over the past couple of years could not be blamed if they thought the world was coming to a breaking point.

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January 7, 2020

Morning Yoga: A Tool for Recovery

In many addiction recovery programs, regular physical exercise is considered to be a top line behavior. Extensive research in exercise physiology demonstrates that exercise helps alleviate stress, increases a sense of well-being, and boosts self –confidence in those who exercise regularly. In recent years, addiction treatment centers, addiction therapists, and addiction experts have included another tool in the arsenal of effective strategies in combating the stress, anxiety, and depression that

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January 6, 2020

Mindful Walking: A Tool for Recovery

Mindfulness practices have been recognized as effective strategies in the treatment of the effects of stress, anxiety, and depression since the 1970s. Pioneered by Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn at The University of Massachusetts, mindfulness-based stress reduction techniques are now employed by clinicians across the world in the treatment of mental health, alcohol, and substance use disorders. The popularization of mindfulness practices in the Western world is due in large part to

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January 3, 2020

Handling Childhood Anger

Emotions. Some of us are ready and willing to talk about them openly, and some of us keep them to ourselves. Most of us fall somewhere in between: we’ll talk about some emotional issues with other people, but there are certain subjects that never really see the light of day. It’s different for everyone—we grow up and learn to process emotions in our own unique ways. For better or for

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January 2, 2020

Exercise, Sleep, and Adolescents

Over the past two years, we’ve published four articles on the role sleep plays in the lives of adolescents. One article was about sleep in a second-hand way. We talked about the impact of school start times on academic performance among teenagers in Seattle. Later start times meant more sleep, which translated into better graders for the teens. Read that article here: Delayed High School Start Times in Seattle: Positive

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December 31, 2019
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Parents

Guide to Radical Acceptance DBT: How DBT’s Radical Acceptance Can Help Teens With Trauma, Anxiety, Depression & More

Radical Acceptance is a skill in Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) that helps people learn how to accept very painful events, people, or aspects of their life. It’s one of the skills found in the Distress Tolerance module of DBT. The Goal of Radical Acceptance in DBT The goal of a Radical Acceptance DBT program is to help an individual move past the most troubling parts of life and become more

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December 30, 2019

Is it Okay to Track Your Teenager?

Many teens withdraw from their parents during adolescence. It’s a natural part of development. Teens want to search, learn, and experience the world all on their own. Privacy and independence become of paramount importance. However, these values often clash with parents’ desires to protect their children. As a parent, you want to know what your kids are up to. At the same time, teens get annoyed at what seems to

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December 27, 2019

New Year’s Resolutions 2020: A New Approach

Last December we published a post with this title: “Are New Year’s Resolutions Even Worth Making?” Our answer – even though statistically speaking, most people don’t keep their resolutions – was easy to reach: “Yes, they absolutely are.” Why? Because we work in a field where we every day, we help people rebuild their lives and create better futures. In that way, our work is based on hope, aspiration, and

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December 26, 2019

How People in Recovery Define Recovery

There’s a funny thing about recovery: the people who define what recovery is aren’t necessarily in recovery themselves. That’s not necessarily a bad thing. If you’re a doctor, for instance, you don’t have to have an illness to be able to identify and treat it. But it is a curious thing. It’s so curious that we wanted to know if there were any definitions of recovery out there that weren’t

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December 24, 2019